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"The one Idea which . History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble ejaeayour to throw down all the barriers erected bet-. veen men by prejudice arid one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions } of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat thie whole H-anaan race a 3 one broth . erh . ood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cos mot .
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NEWS OF THE WEEK— ** ok \ Lord Janus Russell 068 The Sunday of tho Shopman 674 . THE ARTSImperial Parliament 602 Survey of the War 665 ) Naval Cadets 674 Private Theatricals at Kensing-The War 6 fi 4 Some Results of Convocation ... 670 ton 680 The Sunday Biota 665 The Confessions of Marshal St . LITERATURE— Signor Monti ' s Lectures 681 Oor Civilisation 665 Arnaud 670 Summary 675 The Musical Union 681 Obituary 666 Mrs . Norton ' s Appeal for Di- Pliny as a Naturalist 676 Operatic Gossip 681 Naval and Military News & 66 vorce 671 Varieties 676 Continental Notes 666 Italian Necrology 672 Pictures of Palestine 677 Persecution of Protestants 667 Austrian Finance 673 History of the Crimea 678 Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 682 Miscellaneous .. 667 A Problem for the "Profane" ... 673 Dorkingr and its Neighbourhood 678 Postscript 667 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSPUBLIC AFFAIRS- OPEN COUNCIL- PORTFOLIO- City Intelligence , Markets , Ad-Shall we have the Tories ? 668 The "Comic Old Gentleman" ... 673 The Grande Exposition 679 vertisements 682-684
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VOL .. VI . No . 277 . ] SATURDAY , JUIiY 14 , 1855 . Price { 2 £ 3 £ "i ^ gjSgg-
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THE " totumj' says Lord Pai ^ mebston , includes the pars" but sometimes the pars is the germ of the totum . Lord John Russell is " the ministerial crisis ' which is now impending , and should hfMMnoain a member of the united Cabinet , it is pr < m | e that the Cabinet mil be in the article of death on Monday night , when Sir Edwabd IiTtton brings the conduct of Lord John to a positive vote . Events move rapidly in these days . Lord John ' s relation to the Conference at Vienna
¦ was only understood on Friday night last week , and even then but imperfectly . He confessed to $ ie House , of Commons that he had , like M . IhtdtnrN dk IiHtits , approved of the Austrian proposition i that lie had signified that approval to the English Cabinet , and had upheld it in council ; bpt he somewhat obscurely intimated that , although he was prepared to support the Austrian compromise in April or May , he did not think : thftt it could bo sustained now ; and he was
favourable to " the vigorous prosecution of the war . " Nevertheless , the public had some difficulty in understanding how a Minister who had been instructed to support a totally different proposition at Vienna could have returned the advocate of the counter-proposition , and , notwithstanding the rejection of the Austro-RussKi . r . plan of ^ equipoise , could still remain a member of the Cabinet that rejected that compromise . Either O & Cabinet , it -was inferred , must agree with
Ewd John , and bo thoroughly insincere , continuing the wAr only to keep up appearances and ttttain office ; or Lord John , compromising his mito convictions as much as he had his office of Plenipotentiary , lmd so completely forfeited the »' , Clt * racter of an English statesman as to entail $ graca upon the Cabinet of which he still renamed a member . This was the general imprcs-, $ pn early in the week .
s t Mr . Rojcbvck ' s motion for passing a vote of ensure on all the members of tlio late CSovernifl ^ n t connected with the war hiuig over Ministers Won opportunity for pronouncing judgment upon * 4 Wd Jouw , and upon the colleagues who tolof « J * ted him . In order to give greater solemnity to ; jflty vote , Mr . Itoicnucic moved on Tuesday that itypre should bo a call of tho House on the evening V ^ tho 17 th , when his motion is to \> o brought v ^ Ward . Ho presumed , howovor , os mucli earjWwtnesa in tho House of Commons as there is in
Sheffield , as much boldness to do the work thoroughly amongst members around him as there is in his own breast ; and the calculation was erroneous . A call of the House implies a great deal of inconvenience to members . It is true , as he said , that the means of locomotion in the present day render it easy to come up to town : but it also renders it easy for members to travel over the kingdom and every part of the
habitable globe . There are many members in Paris , in India , America , and the Crimea . In fact , there is always a standing call of the House , only it is centrifugal rather than centripetal ; and members would hold it a breach of privilege to bring them up to town for a small thing . Mr . Roebuck , therefore , was not permitted to give his vote of censure that paramount importance which a call of the House implies , and his motion was negatived by 133 to 108 .
To a great extent the interest in his motion was superseded by the resolution of which Sir Edward Ltctton gave notice—a declaration that the conduct of Lord John Russkll at Vienna , and his continuance in the Ministry , have deprived the Government of public confidence . " That motion "was to have been brought on last ni"ht ; but when Sir Edward Lttton asked a day for its discussion , Lord Palmerston declined to accommodate him ; and oven went so far as to declare that there should be no motion for jv
Committee of Supply on Friday night , according to the constant custom . The refusal was imputed to alarm , and Ministers were accused of fencing with a vote of censure . The implied answer is , that votes of censure have become so common that a day ca nnot be found for every honourable member who thinks it necessary to visit Ministers with his indignation . But , in truth , Lord Palmerston was only acting according to his constant habit . He has himself , on more than one
occasion , taken hin departure from a Government , hut he has bee n conspicuous amongst loading statesmen lor standing by a colleague in difficulties ; and some humble public servants have favourably contrasted him even with tho very man whom ho was now shielding . The sense of tho House of Commons and of the public , however , was too powerful : Ministers were at last obliged to plead , and they have- consented to take their trial on Monday next .
In tho meanwhile , tho papers embodying tho communications with the Austrian Government , in which Lord Clarendon and Lord John
Russell took part , have been , laid before Parliament and the public . They are the connecting links between the published protocols , which they transcend in interest ; and they throw a new light upon the -whole subject of the Conferencesincluding the conduct of Lord John Russell , of Lord Palmerstox , and of the Cabinet as a whole . The arrangement , like that of the last proposition at the Conferences , was suggested by Austria some time previously , in the private Conferences , which were alternating with the public Conferences . The basis was , that Russia should be
restrained by a treaty with Turkey from increasing her naval force to exceed that maintained by the Porte ; the other powers having the freedom to enteT the Black Sea on the summons of Turkey . As early as the 30 th of April , Lord Clarendon tells the Austrian ambassador that he receives the suggestion with " surprise and concern , " since it was nothing less than an announcement that Austria did not intend to maintain her pledge on the Third Point . He showed that in fact it was to establish the status quo ante
bellum , only giving to Turkey the permission to increase her naval force to an equality with . that of Russia , and the Western Powers permission to enter the Black Sea—permission for which neither the Pq ^ 'te nor the Western Powers had waited . " The Western Powers had insisted upon putting an end to the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea , with , a pledge that Turkey should not overwhelm her ; while Austria proposed , not to terminate the preponderance of Russia , but to permit Turkey to equal her . Lord Clarendon saw through this dodge , and Lord Palmkrston's Cabinet refused to fall in with it .
Lord John Russell appears to have gone to Vienna fully charged with the duty entrusted to him . In the curlier communications with Count Buoi . and Baron Prokesch , he faithfully represented the arguments on tho English side ; but by decrees , in long conversations—he passes over one with tho parenthetical remark that it would be conversation that
useless to report the details of a endured for four hours-ho became impressed wit " the view of Count Buol ; Mid ho thoug ht that « tho Austrian proposal wore inado « n « U ""^"\ . ? it ought to bo accepted by tho Western 1 owors Ho admitted that this app eared to ^ ™ ^ ^ former opinions ; but he domed thj Mdw really . » The astern of Ii . « it . it . o » I bohow to fro far bettor than that of counterpoise - , » but choosing
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Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/1/
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